I was just using that as an example. But lets say a couple years down the road and you've moved on and you are not further developing MCEBuddy. A feature like this would allow us to script another commandline tool to process a file into a format that we know MCEBuddy handles very well.
One example is if I had another process that generated a .txt or .csv file I could use the folder monitoring feature of MCEBuddy to execute something else to be done with that file. I would suspect it would be easy to add variables to this commandline feature so the %filename% could be sent to the command line.
Another example would be say you normally like to have your computer reboot every so often just to clean it out. You could create a windows task manager job to write a file to a monitored folder on a schedule and when MCEBuddy processes that file it triggers a task manager job to reboot the computer. This allows you to make sure that you are not in the middle of processing a file during that reboot.
I could think of several useful situations where that feature could come in handy. I'm sure there are other tools out there that could sit on top of MCEBuddy and do some of this, but if I'm going to have MCEBuddy running 24x7 why not allow it to do some other things besides just video.
One example is if I had another process that generated a .txt or .csv file I could use the folder monitoring feature of MCEBuddy to execute something else to be done with that file. I would suspect it would be easy to add variables to this commandline feature so the %filename% could be sent to the command line.
Another example would be say you normally like to have your computer reboot every so often just to clean it out. You could create a windows task manager job to write a file to a monitored folder on a schedule and when MCEBuddy processes that file it triggers a task manager job to reboot the computer. This allows you to make sure that you are not in the middle of processing a file during that reboot.
I could think of several useful situations where that feature could come in handy. I'm sure there are other tools out there that could sit on top of MCEBuddy and do some of this, but if I'm going to have MCEBuddy running 24x7 why not allow it to do some other things besides just video.